Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Civilization is a method of living an attitude of equal respect for all men.

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness like a child must be allowed to grow up.

Art is not living. It is the use of living.

The art of living is the art of knowing how to believe lies.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

Art is why I get up in the morning but my definition ends there. You know I don't think its fair that I'm living for something I can't even define.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

I realised the bohemian life was not for me. I would look around at my friends living like starving artists and wonder 'Where's the art?' They weren't doing anything. And there was so much interesting stuff to do so much fun to be had... maybe I could even quit renting.

The art of living well and the art of dying well are one.